Share tips and tricks about fruit ripening.
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Started by Ryan Menzies. Last reply by Ryan Menzies Dec 4, 2011. 4 Replies 0 Likes
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I've recently discovered how to ripen a hichayu persimmon overnight. They sell them hard as rocks in most food stores so if you happen to have a strong desire for a good persimmon, get one. Place it in your freezer overnight or for as many hours possible, they longer they freeze when less ripe the more ripe they get and simply remove from freezer and let it/them thaw out. I have no idea why it works but I've done it on multiple occasions now and never lets me down. :)
Fruits, when ripening, naturally give off ethylene gas, which is the same gas deliberately used by food companies to ripen fruit. Tropical fruits ripen especially fast when in their proper climate. But if you place a tropical fruit in a bag (be it plastic or paper) and add another fruit, that other fruit will ripen faster. This is because the ethylene gas becomes trapped in the bag and the other fruit is exposed to it. If you put a ripe, even near-ripe, banana in a bag with, let's say, some pears you want to ripen quickly, those pears will ripen in no time! Ethylene gas is a naturally occuring gas. There's nothing wrong with it. It is its commercial, excessive use that is a problem, allowing them to pick fruit too early and "artificially" ripening it for sale.
I have actually put unrip tomatoes in a brown paper bag and put them in a cupboard and they have come out red and very tasty. Anyone know if this is not a good way to do that?
it's not the same, and all fruits ripen on the counter/in a box/off the plant by fermentation EXCEPT for the glorious banana. tree ripened fruit is best, but if it's not available to you for whatever reason, then counter/box ripened fruit is also good. it's like how organic, local, tree-ripened in-season fruit is best, but conventional fruit is also good, and better for you than cooked grains/complex carbs, even if those complex carbs are organic, though complex carbs are better than cheese (which is not an option if you're on this forum, but i'm just saying. maybe let's pretend it's some glorious vegan cheese like daiya. i'd say sweet potatoes are better for you than daiya) and so on and so forth. basically i think you should approach health with a good better best mentality. best would be organic tree-ripened local in-season fruit in this case. better would be organic store-bought counter-ripened fruit. good would be conventional counter-ripened fruit. get it?
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